Marte Nilsen

Senior Researcher

Research Interests

Marte Nilsen is a Historian of Religions and a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Her research focus is on the ethnicity-religion-nationbuilding nexus of political and violent conflicts in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Myanmar and Thailand. Research interests include:

Civil society movements in peacebuilding and democratization

Societal transformation in conflict settings

The impact of traditional ideologies and cosmologies on political and violent conflicts